Scare Me

I have been on the hunt for movies that are actually disturbing and or frightening. Not in the hyper-gory way of Hostel/Saw monstrosities. But in the way of I may actually do something besides laugh the whole way through.

Any and all recommendations in the horror/sci-fi/bizzaro are welcome, you all seem like a bunch of movie-buffs

A classic: The Thing

martyrs was the last film to really disturb me. honestly, i need suggestions too. i feel like i'm totally desensitized to horror films. nothing does anything for me. i've seen it all.

Tetsuo the iron man

Eraserhead

Inland Empire

Jonestown - The Life And Death Of Peoples Temple

Waco - The Rules OF Engagement

The Kingdom (lars von trier)

Bad Boy Bubby

i'm not scared by most movies

one i can think of that scared me" the others'\ i dunno,

"Entrance" 2012... best recent horror movie i've watched. it was on netflix streaming, not sure if it still is. ignore the low imdb reviews, they don't know shit about shit

A Clockwork Orange
Cube
Donnie Darko
No Country For Old Men
Taxi Driver

They're not "slasher" movies, but they do have a lot of suspense and/or shock value.

We Need To Talk About Kevin

donnie darko lol

jacobs ladder fucked with me...

i'm looking through your window lol

For the most supreme LoLZ ever, watch Sleepaway Camp. It's scary to laugh this much. An accidental work of genius.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086320/?ref_=sr_1

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the scene between 00:20 and 02:00~ is the only scary movie-scene i can recall that gives me shivers just thinking about it, and i don't even know why. something about the lady and the mirror. i think it reminds me about a recurring nightmare i had as a kid.

this is the only example i could think of though, and i watch a lot of horror flicks.

that wasn't scary at all, but then j horror people in mirrors with long black hair are inherently goofy, to me. goddamn i need to see a scary movie. i want two hours of anxiety akin to a night terror. pretty sure it doesn't exist.

I'm with Zaphod for the most part. Inland Empire is pretty tense however.

altered states always freaked me out. but it's been a long time, so my memories may be off.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436374/ The Uninvited Guest

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What if ... you let a stranger into your house to use your phone, but while you've been patiently waiting in the kitchen, he just disappears ... or does he?

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure was the first genuinely disturbing movie I've seen in years....Im not sure whether you could call it a straight up horror flick...but its rather existential and with plenty of disturbing psychological material.

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essentially anything that is a treatise on the dark sides of humanity as a whole get me going....

I'd venture to say that Cure should be considered one of the greatest films of the 90s, if not Japanese cinema as a whole. It just really felt perfect for me.

another one is one you've probably heard a couple times echoed around here, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance.

Although my overall favorite of the trilogy is Lady Vengeance, Mr. Vengeance absolutely captures the utter feeling of despair amidst an increasingly insane world. I don't really want to explain much more than that, but I think this is the only movie I've ever watched where I seriously became temporarily depressed for a few days. Very powerful impact on me.

I would post a trailer for it but honestly I haven't come across a trailer that does it justice.

Haneke's Cache definitely left me unsettled at the end.

There was a straight up suspense/horror movie from Romania or something that I saw recently that was absolutely brilliant in a Hitchcockian sense.Called Ils (They).

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Give it a try; its a short movie...and made me realize that the "less is more" type of horror movie can still be pulled off to great heights. This is a good un if you just want to straight up feel stressed out for 70 mins or so.....and the other thing I remember loving was that it had very little soundtrack (if any?). I've never seen it recommended or talked about anywhere else...so hopefully im not the only one that thought this was a great horror film?

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also

Antibodies...German thriller from 2005 had some pretty fucked up/disturbing notions of humanity.

apparently this is the full film:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqY5gXT22cs

Chuck & Buck

(Suck & Fuck)

A couple of serial killer based movies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry:_Portrait_of_a_Serial_Killer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Bites_Dog_(film)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowtown_(film)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Fish

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memories_of_Murder

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Saw_the_Devil

edit: more than a couple. any other good ones out there?

I watched the first three Hellraiser movies in a row, alone, when I was a teenager.

I was in a really really really really dark place for 2 days afterwards.

Yup, Them is a good one.

The French film Inside is hard as nails, Lake Mungo has its moments too.

I'll be back later as I can't think at the moment but if anyone mentions Insidious ignore them.

  On 2/17/2013 at 5:31 AM, zaphod said:

martyrs was the last film to really disturb me. honestly, i need suggestions too. i feel like i'm totally desensitized to horror films. nothing does anything for me. i've seen it all.

yeah, martyrs will fuck you up emotionally for a week at least.

Mulholland Drv and Lost Highway. Always.